Whats next… splurging on ramen, spaghetti, and hotdogs?
Instant ramen/noodles cost a friggin’ fortune where I live (Denmark) now as well. The price is on average 150 DKK pr kilo of what is essentially fried pasta with a sauce packet. This shit used to be the lowest of the low student food and now it’s priced like a gourmet meal.
150 DKK equals:
$23.80 USD
€20.08 EUR
$33.59 AUD
$23.44 CADIf you find the super bland stuff that only comes in ‘chicken’ flavour its like 7 euro per dry kilo (bought as seperate packets, its cheaper in bulk) which is almost a week of cheap calories to bulk out some vegetables or cut price sausage. Or you can get fancy and fry it up with an egg and leftovers.
“Splurging” on one of the most prolific loss leaders in grocery is certainly one way to say it. We’re buying them because it’s the cheapest way to eat
Up next: Gen Z splurging on costco hotdogs and mi goreng instant noodles.
splurging on rotisserie chicken
You mean those cheap chickens they sell at grocery stores that can feed you for days?
I can get frozen chicken bits pretty cheap. My cheap options right now look like a half a kilo plus sauces, or (with some walking) a full kilo, plus no extras.
Filled with chlorine
The other other white meat.
Baby!
Who let Justin Bieber in?
I was thinking more Fat Bastard, but text isn’t great for conveying Scottish accents in general, let alone the single word response.
Costco rotisserie chicken is to die for. I mean, literally. Motherfuckers waiting in line for that shit and don’t you dare walk in front of the line when they start putting them in the case, you’ll get killed.
isn’t this the free pastrami for jewish people guy?
“I’ve been eating Rotisserie Chickens at Costco everyday, one a day, for the last 25 years. It all started when Costco came to New York in the 90s, the first one was in Staten Island.”
But then he goes off the deep end about “LED light poisoning”
https://oldjewishmen.substack.com/p/the-story-behind-the-viral-costco
So… he thinks the laser “infects” his chicken, indirectly giving him “laser poisoning”… So his solution is to have them laser him directly, through the impenetrable barrier of a cotton t-shirt?
Are… are lasers only harmful if digested? Is the brief swipe of a laser some sort of catalyst for a chemical change in the chicken meat?
and gut-healthy juices
so they don’t have to have healthcare. Don’t forget that this is owned by Murdoch, a truly evil shit stain.
I live alone now, and I get less motivated to cook for just myself, but today I felt like I needed to eat healthy. I got a rotisserie chicken and made a nice sandwich with it, pulled most of the meat off the bone and put it in the fridge, then simmered the carcase with celery, onions, carrots, bay leaf, thyme, and salt until it was reduced way down. Strained that into a container, and tomorrow I’ll make chicken soup with that, some more of the veggies, and some little potatoes I have leftover. I’ll have several meals with a few cheap ingredients. Super cost effective, healthy, and delicious.
This is the way.
Just a few practical tips for those of you wanting to do this, but feel a bit nervous about dealing with the chicken carcass. Disposable gloves are your friend. Pull off every bit of meat you can possibly pull off. It can be frozen and then used for pretty much anything. You can throw it in tacos. You can put it in ramen soup.You can just eat it. You can share it with your dog or cat, if you can afford one.
If you have an Instant Pot cooker, I have the small three quart sized one, it makes it really easy and quick to simmer the carcass and get all that delicious bone broth. The bone broth can also be used for anything savory you’re making that requires water like rice, instant stuffing, Ramen, couscous. You get the idea.
$5 for a whole chicken? That’s cheap as fuck. What does the WSJ expect gen z and millennials to eat? Their mom’s cooking?
A single meal for $5 would be a deal. A rotisserie chicken can feed a family, or a single person could eat it for days.
This is just more “anyone who isn’t a millionaire doesn’t deserve to eat” rhetoric from the world’s billionaires.
Also, as a 30y.o. millennial, I object to the characterization of the “oldest gen z” being 30. I’ve earned my place among 20th century-borns!
New day, new generation, every single day
Can feed a family yes, but isn’t truly a meal on its own. Add some rice and beans, and now you’ve got a decent meal that has a tad more nutrition/balance than just straight up chicken.
You’re right, it needs some veggies too. But honestly if you’re having rice and beans, and something iron-rich like broccoli, then the chicken isn’t even necessary.
But we all know the people complaining about this aren’t advocating for vegetarianism…
That doesn’t account for the time value of money. The reality is even worse because the price of the house is continuing to increase as you push the purchase off into the future. (I haven’t done the math, but it could very well be increasing faster than $5 day, so in reality foregoing the rotisserie chicken doesn’t make you make progress at all, but only fall behind slower.)
Yeah… I wish I didn’t, but I get that reference…
Me too budd, me too
sigh same. We’ve been on the internet too long.
hey man nice shot
What a way to live
It’s even worse, if you buy “cold” rotisserie chicken (literally the same just not kept warm under heat lamps so you have to warm it up if you want it hot) it was $2.77 last time I bought one at Walmart.
Why the price difference? Don’t know. It’s stored in the open cover “cold food storage” they use it which are probably similar cost to run as the heat lamps. That said for a chicken sandwich or chicken noodle soup such a better deal.
Our local Costco has these. They’re the previous day’s chicken and are sold at a discount.
If I had to venture a guess it’s whatever is left over from the hot section the day prior.
I can’t speak for Walmart but I can confirm other grocery stores do that. Whatever doesn’t sell gets chilled for the following day.
I know there was a time written on the bag, could of been from the previous day I don’t know. That said if I buy a chicken, eat half, put the other half in the refrigerator I would still eat it the next day so…
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If they were interested in doing favors for humanity, they wouldn’t be working at WSJ
these articles are just trolling at this point with these kinds of headlines…
Oh, you fuckers!!
Is this why I can’t get any rotisserie chickens at Market Basket anymore?
FUCK!!
LOL!
(I recently discovered avocado toast… it’s quite nice! Job well done.)
Walmart and Sam’s near me have started rationing theit rotisserie chickens, they only make a certain number per day and when they are gone they don’t make any more.
People often think of Sam’s Club and Costco as sort of equivalent, but they’re not and that kind of thing is one of the reasons why.
Ding ding. These things are not like the other.
The rotisserie is just to get you in the door. They sell it at a loss, but know you’re going to buy a bunch of stuff once you get there. I guess ppl are now just going in to buy 1 or 2, 50lbs bags of rice and beans and dipping out.
If you buy a rotisserie chicken, a seven layer dip and some tortillas all you have to do is make rice and you have enough food for a family or a single person for a couple days for cheap.
Ok, that sounds amazing.
In five years when its even more dire WSJ will be posting about how millenials are splurging on sliced bread and milk.
If Gen Alpha would just be happy with water they could own a home!
Hoarding all their functional kidneys instead of buying a starter home for eight million dollars.
you have 2 kidneys, get going and sell 1 kidney, 1 lung, some of your skin and liver.
It doesn’t matter what food you eat, it’s still too good for you. How long until the articles about “splurging” on instant ramen come out?
Whats wrong with instant ramen?
It’s like 12¢ a pack. The commenter was saying the out-of-touch billionaires will never be pleased and will continue to shame the poors no matter what they do. Even if you’re eating the cheapest thing you can find, they’ll still call it a frivolous expense because you’re not a millionaire.
Instant ramen is more expensive than rotisserie chicken right now.
Find an asian market near you. The ramen is so cheap there and it’s way better than the ones in the supermarket.
I’ve started buying the frozen ramen (raw noodles) at my local asian market :)
You can afford instant ramen?!
I had to work for my ramen.
Stop buying (checks notes) food!! 🥑😤
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Presumably “a house costs more than a chicken.”
Stupid Millennials! You’re supposed to magically develop bodies which survive off instant noodles and works until it’s 70! /s
At 44, my doc keeps telling me I need to eat a better diet. His diet would break the damn bank… I have a family of three to feed.
For $5 I could get a 3 ish pound bird, eat good for two days and boil whatever I don’t eat with a $1 bag of mirapoux and salt, and have the best rice you’ve ever had for a fucking week! So assuming generously the rice cost $1.5, then I am making essentially 7 or more meals for $7.50.
But yeah, we splurging…
“Man, however, is not a being whose exclusive purpose in life is eating, drinking, and providing a shelter for himself. As soon as his material wants are satisfied, other needs, of an artistic character, will thrust themselves forward the more ardently. However, if there’s some rotisserie chicken available, you absolutely should grab that immediately, because that’s a rare treat.”
- Peter Kropotkin: The Conquest of Bread, ch. 9
" Man shall not live by bread alone, but if you grab some of that damn good rotisserie chicken, mm-mmm, that’s some good stuff." Jesus, Matthew 4:4
